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An aerial view of the Harvard University campus at night in July 2017. The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in New Towne, a settlement founded six years earlier in colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
A selection of instruments and artifacts from the collection comprise the exhibition Time, Life, & Matter: Science in Cambridge.This permanent display can be found in the Putnam Gallery on the first floor of the Harvard Science Center, which is free and open to the public during regularly scheduled hours, Sunday through Friday.
I. Bernard Cohen [1] (1 March 1914 – 20 June 2003) was an American historian of science. He taught at Harvard University for 60 years, 1942–2002, becoming the first chair of its Department of the History of Science when it was established in 1966, and he mentored notable students including George Basalla, Lorraine Daston, and Allen G. Debus.
Naomi Oreskes (/ ə ˈ r ɛ s k ə s /; [1] born November 25, 1958) [2] is an American historian of science.She became Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 2013, after 15 years as Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
From 1947 to 1959 he was a faculty member of Brown University's history department. [2] After spending the academic year 1958–1959 as a professor at Yale University, he joined in 1959 the faculty of Harvard University's history department. [3] He remained a professor there until 1999, when he retired as professor emeritus. [1]
Students of history study individuals, groups, communities, and nations from every imaginable perspective." [4] The department also runs the History of Science program, which "deals with important questions about the rise and impact of science, medicine, and technology, both east and west, and at all periods, including the very recent past." [5]
At Harvard, he became a lecturer in 1920, and a professor of the history of science from 1940 until his retirement in 1951. He supervised just two PhD students in Harvard's history of science program to completion, the first such PhDs in America: Aydin M. Sayili and I. Bernard Cohen . [ 6 ]
Galison received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., in both physics and history of science, at Harvard University. [1] His publications include How Experiments End (1987), Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (1997), and Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps (2003). His most recent book, co-authored with Lorraine Daston, is titled ...